“shot while escaping”

1941

Alleged ‘partisans’, bound together by rope, are led down a dusty village road to their fate, as a German corporal glances back at the camera. During July 1941 German troops occupied Latvia, then entered Ukraine. Smolensk was captured, and the massexecution of Jews commenced as the Sseinsatzgruppen followed the regular troops. At this point 750,000 Red Army soldiers entered captivity – most suffered death by starvation.